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Chinese Roundabout Essays in History and Culture

Name: Chinese Roundabout
Author: Jonathan D. Spence

Auteur: Jonathan D. Spence

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jonathan D. Spence

Engels
Hardcover
9780393033557
01 juni 1992
400 pagina's

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Jonathan D. Spence

Jonathan Spence's eleven books on Chinese history include The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Treason by the Book, and The Death of Woman Wang. His awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches at Yale University.

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The spirit of adventure is at the heart of Jonathan Spence's widely acclaimed scholarship on the modern history of China. This vitality, fleshed out with deep research and attired in elegant style, has drawn countless readers to subjects otherwise approachable only by experts. Through eight books, from the story of the early eighteenth century Manchu bondservant Ts'ao Yin to his magisterial history, The Search for Modern China, Spence has made the excitement of intellectual discovery palpable for us all. In the course of his fruitful career Spence has written many shorter pieces as well, and the best of these are collected for the first time in Chinese Roundabout. Here the reader will meet Arcadio Huang, the Chinese linguist and Christian convert who moves from south China to Enlightenment Paris, marries a French woman, and in conversations with Montesquieu becomes the likely source for the Persian Letters. The poignant story of Huang's hard-won success and final defeat by poverty and disease illustrates the perils of crossing cultures. Spence's delight in intellectual risk animates his Shakespearean approach to the life of the great Qing emperor in The Seven Ages of K'ang-hsi. Spence's great learning informs an authoritative essay on China's tragic experience with opium. Following the social process of addiction from the cultivation of poppies and the processing of the drug through its introduction by the British into China, its widespread distribution and consumption by Chinese, and the public struggle to suppress opium use, Spence explores issues of historical and contemporary interest. In an equally substantial piece he focuses on the cultural dimensions of food in Qing China, illuminating the marginal diet of a peasantry constantly threatened by famine as well as the grand banquets of the literati and the imperial household. In the work of 25 years, Spence has established himself as a brilliant interpreter of modern Chinese history. His books-among them the recent national bestseller The Search for Modern China-exhibit uncommon imagination, unobtrusive learning, verve, and elegance. These same qualities animate the essays gathered here.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 juni 1992
Aantal pagina's: 400
Illustraties: Nee

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Editie: 1. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1992
Product breedte: 16.5 cm
Product hoogte: 4 cm
Product lengte: 24 cm
Studieboek: Nee

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EAN: 9780393033557

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Cultuur

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Nieuwe tijd (1500-1800)

Moderne tijd (1800-1945)

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Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Taal: Engels
Periode: 19e eeuw, 18e eeuw
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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